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[–] [email protected] 7 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

By buying American aircraft?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's an absolutely massive amount of money. And it's not temporary while there's a war in Ukraine, it's indefinitely. All because Trump pressured the rest of NATO and wants more money going to his buddies in the weapons industry.

Even without the US, European NATO countries already spend more than Russia and China (sources from 2024 and 2025). Just how much more should it get?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But even if you do buy on Amazon sometimes, why should that make you on board with surrendering your city to this billionaire? It's part of this toxic obsession of finding minor 'gotchas'/hypocrisies instead of debating substance. You MUST subscribe to every belief of team A and hate everything from team B.

[–] [email protected] 297 points 6 days ago (38 children)

“You’re telling me none of these people shop on Amazon?” said New Orleans native Jake Springer, who, along with his wife, was spending a weekend in Venice on a wine tour through Italy. “At least they are protesting peacefully. Americans could learn a thing or two from this.”

They found the dumbest possible American to give a comment.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

AI generated :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This is basically how Wikipedia users communicate still.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

He doesn't want to protect protestors. You're forgetting that he and the mayor are in full control of the police officers that are currently beating protestors to pulp. They are totally on board with what is happening, they just want to be the one in control.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

This is delusional. Trump doesn't need provocation, he was always going to do this regardless. The "system" you cling to is the same that has allowed him to rise to power and failed to prosecute his crimes many times now.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

On the contrary. It's a quote mocking the extent to which the exploitative system of capitalism has entrenched itself in the minds of people, to such a degree that they cannot even consider that a better alternative might exist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism

By the way, buying and selling things isn't generally considered to be capitalism. Capitalism is about controlling private property for the generation of profit.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

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